Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider successfully transformed lead into gold atoms, achieving an ancient alchemist ...

Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold - Physicists have made an unexpected breakthrough ...

Of course, nothing came of these investigations (other than the foundations of modern chemistry), but it turns out all Boyle, ...

The gold you wear today may have landed on Earth billions of years ago... but that is far from the beginning of the metal’s ...

"It's pretty incredible to think that some of the heavy elements all around us, like the precious metals in our phones and ...

A spectacular new study suggests that colossal bursts from dead stars, known as magnetar flares, could be behind some of the ...

A California startup has developed the specialized resin beads needed to extract lithium from brine with ion exchange and ...

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold. Today, we know that lead and gold are different elements, and no ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...